450 news items found
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Beatrice Gründler: ‘Literary text can help us understand Europe better’ 07 February 2023'Consider languages in their shared context.' That is the message of Professor and Arabist Beatrice Gründler, who will receive an honorary doctorate f...
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants 02 February 2023Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has...
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Tom Groot Haar works for Foreign Affairs: ‘every important issue comes by our desks’ 31 January 2023Working as a diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: for many students it would be their dream. Alumnus Tom Groot Haar is busy making it a reali...
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The more time, the better the kidney 26 January 2023There are never enough donor organs. And the organs that there are have to be transplanted at lightning speed. Medical science is therefore working ha...
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‘We should stop celebrating diversity. It should be a given’ 24 January 2023Language matters. It can mean that people feel they do, or do not, belong. How can inclusive communication make people feel welcome? This was the them...
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What is there to do at Leiden University in 2023? Six events to look forward to 20 January 2023From sponsored runs to festivals and from open days to concerts: Leiden University hosts all manner of events every year. To make sure these events ge...
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Students remain ‘very satisfied’ with their degree programme in 2022 18 January 2023Almost 3,000 students from the Faculty of Humanities completed the National Student Survey (NSE) in the spring of 2022. With a response rate of 38%, t...
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365 days of Leiden2022: watch the retrospective 13 January 2023From an academic study with local residents to a specially developed newspaper: humanities scholars contributed to Leiden European City of Science in ...
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Faculty of Humanities ushers in the new year: 'Build in some low-pressure time' 13 January 2023In a world beset with war, climate problems and skyrocketing energy prices, it is good to have some 'slack time' now and then. That was Dean Mark Rutg...
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Executive Board of the University asks University Council for advice on activating person counters/sensors 12 January 2023The Executive Board of Leiden University has asked the University Council to advise on its proposed decision to reactivate the person counters/sensors...
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Language both connects and divides 02 January 2023Author and political scientist Mounir Samuel has spent recent years delving into the many ways that language can exclude people and bring them togethe...
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news 22 December 2022After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-d...
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Call for Papers: Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries' 21 December 2022On 26-28 June, 2023, Leiden University’s Institute for History will host a summer school on Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-1...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed? 20 December 2022The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...
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Three questions about the D&I Symposium 2023 19 December 2022How can inclusive communication make you feel welcome at a university? That is one of the questions that will be discussed at the D&I Symposium 2023 o...